Background

Rebecca Plevel provides reference services to library patrons and conducts outreach to the legal communities in South Carolina, in addition to teaching legal research in the IL Legal Research Analysis and Writing program. She joined the South Carolina Law Library from the University of Arizona where she was a Fellow at the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library at the James E. Rogers College of Law while pursuing her Master of Arts in Library and Information Science. Before becoming a law librarian, Professor Plevel practiced law in Arizona, the last almost 20 years in Flagstaff. During her extensive law practice career, she was a solo practitioner; worked for as tribal attorney and tribal prosecutor and provided contract legal services to many Indian tribes in Arizona; worked as a Deputy County Attorney in both Coconino and Maricopa Counties; and served as judge pro tem for the Flagstaff City Court and the Coconino County Justice of the Peace courts. She continues to serve as a Justice Pro Tem for the Pasqua Yaqui Tribe Court of Appeals. Her scholarship interests lie in social justice and access to justice, access to information and information literacy, as well as in tribal and Indigenous law.

Education

• 2021, MLIS, University of Arizona School of Information
• 1991, JD, University of Arizona College of Law
• 1986, BA, Liberal Arts (Communications, Sociology and Spanish), University of Arizona

Teaching

• Legal Research, Analysis & Writing I (LAWS 533)
• Legal Research, Analysis & Writing II (LAWS 534)

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Scholarship

• Extending the CARE Principles from Tribal Research Policies to Benefit Sharing in Genomic Research. FRONT. GENET. 13:1052620, 11 November 2022. (with Stephanie Carroll, Lydia Jennings, Ibrahim Garba, Rogena Sterling, Felina Cordova-Marks, Vanessa Hiratsuka, Maui Hudson and Nanibaa' A. Garrison).
• Research Tips and Resources from a UofSC Law Librarian, SC Lawyer, July 2022, at 32.
• Using Indigenous Standards to implement the CARE Principles: Setting Expectations through Tribal Research Codes, FRONT. GENET, 13:823309, 21 March 2022  (with Stephanie Russo Carroll, Ibrahim Garba, Desi Small-Rodriquez, Vanessa Y Hiratsuka, Maui Hudson, Nanibaa' A. Garrison)